Thank you, Nancy, for sharing your depth of insight and breadth of knowledge. Reading thru your site, I feel expanded both personally and professionally and am eager to invite my whole Self to my painting to see what is revealed. P.S. I’ll even try to refrain from judging it an “ugly painting” and let go of my fear of wasting supplies. So glad I discovered you and your work!

Oh thank you so much Terri for you generous and kind words. I smiled when you referenced the “ugly painting” because just saying those words makes me smile and feels so freeing! Ah yes…the fear of wasting supplies…you’re not alone in that one! Somehow as I read your words about that I was reminded of Mary Oliver’s poem “The Wild Geese” where she says something along the lines of (I’m paraphrasing)…”you do not have to be good, you do not have to crawl on your knees for a thousand miles through the desert repenting…you ONLY have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”.

And I’m reminded of a Zen Buddhist monk who asked: ‘What is your heart’s big desire?”

And I’m thinking…what if we allowed ourselves to have extravagant abundance in what it is that we love? What if we gave ourselves permission to take the thing that scares us (wasting supplies) and really let ourselves jump in…straight into the eye of that fear and use up huge amounts of paint…gallons and gallons…and miles of canvas…and reams of paper (go out and buy the 100 sheet BFK Rives 22″ x30″ paper) and activate every. single. sheet.

I think it’s so powerful to identify the specific fears and face them. And of course…analyze why they’re there in the first place..as in…why that specific fear? And as we identify these and move through them…and go ahead anyway…it’s so powerful and healing.

So again, thank you Terri. Your words really inspired me and brought up a lot of associations.